Improvement in tobacco-quid protectors



S. S. HENDERSON. Tobacco-Quid Protector.

No. 206,017. Patented July 16, I878.

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N-FETERS. PKOTO LITHDGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIMSON S. HENDERSON, OF NORTH WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOHN W. WENNER, OF FOREST, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOBACCO-QUiD PROTECTORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 206,017, dated July 16, 1-978; application filed May 29, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMsON STURGEN HEN- DERSON, of North Washington, in the county of Hardin and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Tobacco-Quid Protector, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is a View of my improved device opened. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same closed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish a device to receive and hold a quid of tobacco when in the mouth, the use of which will prevent an intemperate use of tobacco, while at the same time afiording the chewer the full pleasure, enjoyment, and satisfaction which the use of tobacco imparts, and which will enable the tobacco to be kept in the month without spitting.

The invention consists in the tobacco-quid protector formed of the two concave-convex plates, whether plain or perforated, hinged to each other at one edge, to adapt it for holding a quid of tobacco when in the mouth, as hereinafter fully described.

A B are two concavo-convex plates, made in about the shape of halves of plum-pits, and which are hinged together at one edge, in the manner of clamshells. The plates A B may be made plain, or they may be perforated with a number of holes, as may be desired.

In using the protector, good tobacco is packed into it until it cannot be quite closed, and it is then put into the mouth, where it acquires warmth and moisture, so that when compressed by the check the tobacco-juice will be pressed out. The protector may he kept in the month without pressing out the juice when desired, so that it Wlll not be necessary for the user to be constantlyspitting, the saliva being allowed to perform its legitimate oftice, thus checking a serious drain upon the system. The protector maybe made of silver, porcelain, wood, vulcanized rubber, or other suitable material.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The tobacco-quid protector formed of two concavo-convex plates, A B, hinged to each other at one edge, to adapt it for holding a quid of tobacco when in the mouth, substair tially as herein shown and described.

SIMSON STURGEN HENDERSON.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL FASIG,

LUCINDA FASIG. 

